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PART ONE:THE WRITER AND HIS SETTING 1

Chronological table 2

1 Briefly,the essentials 8

St Louis 11

Harvard and New England 15

Paris 20

Harvard again 21

England 22

First marriage 23

The Criterion and The Waste Land 26

Conversion 27

Separation 29

Eliot through the thirties 30

War and its consequences 31

Second marriage:life as return 31

2 The religious quest 35

Eliot and religion 35

Puritan concerns 35

Unitarian concerns 38

The claims of the primitive:Sweeney and the animals 40

Mysticism 44

Idealism 45

Facts and action:towards conversion 47

Religion and society:Action Fran？aise 49

Conversion and Ash-Wednesday 51

Puns and paradoxes 51

The city and the desert 53

3 Eliot and the traditions of poetry 56

Edgar Allan Poe 56

Walt Whitman 62

Jules Laforgue 70

Charles Baudelaire 72

Jacobeans and Metaphysicals 75

Virgil 78

Dantc 80

Ezra Pound 84

W.B. Yeats 87

The poets of the thirties 89

The drama 94

4 Eliot and the traditions of criticism 102

Tradition:theme and variations 104

'Dissociation of sensibility' 109

'Obiective correlative' 110

Language and myth:the case of Milton 112

Social criticism:After Strange Gods 114

Social criticism:The Idea of a Christian Society 117

Social criticism:Notes towards the Definition of Culture 118

PART TWO:CRITICAL SURVEY 121

5 A critical examination of some poetry 122

'Rhapsody on a Windy Night' 123

'Gerontion' 127

'The Death of Saint Narcissus' 132

'The Hippopotamus' 135

'Whispers of Immortality' 139

'Journey of the Magi' 141

'Marina' 146

The Waste Land 148

Four Quartets 154

Murder in the Cathedral 161

PART THREE:REFERENCE SECTION 169

Brief biographies 170

Gazetteer 177

Further reading 189

INDICES 191